Everybody I know, who is working for Accenture, has a lot of expertise and had outstanding degrees (not only on paper) for a reason.
If we had enough resources I would prefer working with them everyday over the surrogate counseling by an AI.
My bet: as soon as AI companies aren't able to subsidize anymore, we will see a renaissance of IT consulting.
I think the price that LLMs have to get to for companies to return to paying consulting rates is much higher than you think. Claude Code at $2000/month is roughly one day of a top consultant's rate. (And this omits the possibility of companies make it a capex by hosting open source models)
Read "Bonuses" at the end of the article: https://medium.com/p/7a577eba4f3e
No one really seems to want to answer the simple question: "Why would anyone be willing to buy your AI slop when there is no barrier for a company to generate their own with the same or lower cost?"
